The husband of Mary and the foster father of Jesus in the Gospels; a carpenter by trade, and the patron of workers and of a happy death. He is a saint of the living tradition, not a deity, and the corpus marks the distinction.
Modern Practice
The folk practice is for work, for the family, and for a peaceful death. The corpus records the devotion and marks that the 'patron of workers' title is a modern ecclesial development (1955).